NormanS
Well-Known Member
What about the ply with a formica type facing that is used extensively for shower cubicles etc. Sorry, I don't have a name for it. It's quite thin (10mm?), but with adequate backing, it might be OK. Has anyone used it?
What to use for galley work surface?
- Thread starter Rivers & creeks
- Start date
Poignard
Well-Known Member
I used good quality marine ply (from Robbins Timber Ltd, Bristol) covered in Formica. All edges were sealed with epoxy and utile coamings fitted to the front and sides.
I have photos but don't know how to show them here.
(If you're that interested I could email them.)
I have photos but don't know how to show them here.
(If you're that interested I could email them.)
sailorman
Well-Known Member
I used good quality marine ply (from Robbins Timber Ltd, Bristol) covered in Formica. All edges were sealed with epoxy and utile coamings fitted to the front and sides.
I have photos but don't know how to show them here.
(If you're that interested I could email them.)
click on reply
click on the paper clip
select file & upload
Krusty
Well-Known Member
Just browsing, and still learning (I hope) about this new forum format: but I must be half blind or totally thick : WHAT PAPERCLIP?
I wuold be grateful for enlightenment.
sailorman
Well-Known Member
ccscott49
Well-Known Member
I used domestic worktop 28mm for my galley rebuild, with all edges double selaed with epoxy, anything else is bonded down with sikaflex, works/looks fine, longevity unknown, only been in a year. We'll see.
Bobobolinsky
Well-Known Member
Mermaid board and it's cheaper cousin is £200-£250 a sheet now so have priced themselves out of the market. Coated domestic chipboard is useless, I had some on a canal boat and it quickly became twice as thick. I bought a secondhand school chemistry lab counter made from mahogany planks. £30 well spent. Top surface burnt and scarred, but turned over and sanded, super.
Poignard
Well-Known Member
Go on Sailorman - say it: "There, that wasn't too difficult, was it?"
memo: Must give that chopping board/sink cover a scrape!
Last edited by a moderator:
sailorman
Well-Known Member
Brenda Eat yer Heart out
mcframe
Well-Known Member
Oooh! - there's something to make - If I get to the end of my boat-things-to-do-at-home list before we relaunch...
A certain recent-build pilot cutter I know has a *really* fancy chopping board - with the ship's crest carved into it - apparently it was supposed to be the (trapezoid) cover for the cockpit instruments, but it wasn't until the carving was done that it was noticed that it was upside down, so they had to carve another one ;-)
prv
Well-Known Member
It is available - just spotted it in Robbins Timber's catalogue booklet. Glad I saw this thread actually - it hadn't occurred to me to use laminate-faced ply for the "galley" part of my rebuild of KS's combined galley and chart table, but I think I will now.
Edit: Just picked up the catalogue again and looked at the prices. Eeek! Maybe I'll stick with OldBoots's epoxy ply approach instead.
Pete
capsco
Well-Known Member
View attachment 3008
This is our galley refitted with ply, topped with laminate, cost ex labour [self] £60.
This is our galley refitted with ply, topped with laminate, cost ex labour [self] £60.
prv
Well-Known Member
Wow - that's brilliant!
Can I ask what materials you used and where you got them? As I said above, a galley rebuild is on the cards for KS at some point. Doing all that for £60 is impressive.
Pete
Rivers & creeks
Well-Known Member
And another request for info! Looks great BTW
Poignard
Well-Known Member
The executive desk at which I am now sitting has a laminated top which looks as if it would be very durable (unless very hot pans were placed on it). It cost me nothing and would have been big enough for two galley work-tops in my boat. Firms who refurbish offices are always chucking things like this in the skip because most new businesses like to start out with smart new furniture, and most of them go bust before it starts to get shabby.
I also got a snazzy swivel-chair to go with it, free-of-charge
capsco
Well-Known Member
Plywood was 12mm wbp from local builders merchant, I had most of it as offcuts, doors are original, recovered with new laminate, this is genuine Formica, they now produce severall different grades, local furniture manufactureres got it for me [10'x4' sheet] I got them to rip it down to rough size lengthways, it then rolls up easily for transport, sheet was £30 or £33 don't remember which.
prv
Well-Known Member
Thanks.
Pete
Pete